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William Hurt

1950 - 2022

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William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. He is widely known for his performances on stage and screen, he received various awards including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Hurt studied at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hurt has received more than 12,726,647 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). William Hurt is the 501st most popular actor (up from 538th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,001st in 2019) and the 253rd most popular American Actor.

William H. Hurt is most famous for his role as a paraplegic in the film "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1985).

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, William Hurt ranks 501 out of 9,996. Before him are George Kennedy, Hugh Laurie, Fernando Rey, Nǃxau ǂToma, Magda Schneider, and Jennifer Connelly. After him are Louise Fletcher, Forest Whitaker, Natalie Portman, Marie Laforêt, Ali MacGraw, and Pierre Brice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, William Hurt ranks 27. Before him are Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Joe Hisaishi, Richard Dean Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Suzi Quatro, and Julie Walters. After him are Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Flavio Briatore, Chris Norman, Gabriel Byrne, Néstor Kirchner, and Jörg Haider. Among people deceased in 2022, William Hurt ranks 48. Before him are Hardy Krüger, Kakuichi Mimura, Viktor Saneyev, Bruno Latour, David Sassoli, and Uwe Seeler. After him are Louise Fletcher, Issei Sagawa, Stanislav Shushkevich, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Ayaz Mutallibov, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Hurt ranks 934 out of 18,182. Before him are David Lee (1931), Otis Redding (1941), Tony Bennett (1926), Sarah Knauss (1880), Ray Tomlinson (1941), and Jennifer Connelly (1970). After him are Ambrose Bierce (1842), Louise Fletcher (1934), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), George Jung (1942), Forest Whitaker (1961), and Albert Pike (1809).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, William Hurt ranks 253. Before him are Tom Waits (1949), Barry Nelson (1917), Steve Reeves (1926), Robert Vaughn (1932), George Kennedy (1925), and Jennifer Connelly (1970). After him are Louise Fletcher (1934), Forest Whitaker (1961), Ali MacGraw (1939), Scott Glenn (1939), Shelley Winters (1920), and Jennifer Jones (1919).

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